Magnet Releasing in Association with Timpson Films and
Drafthouse Films announce full directorial roster for ABCs OF DEATH 2
Popular
fan submission competition returns, jury revealed
New
York, NY – 14 August, 2013 – Producers Ant Timpson, Tim League, and Magnet
Releasing have announced the full lineup of acclaimed directors taking part in
ABCs OF DEATH 2, a high-energy sequel to the 2012 hit, which delivers 26 new
dark tales from the industry’s most celebrated genre directors. Accompanying
the announcement, the production team has revealed the details for the film’s
“26th Director Competition”, which, like the original, will place
one exceptional fan-made entry in the finished film.
In
a significant departure from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 is
expanding beyond horror directors. Joining the sequel’s roster are Julian
Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Todd Rohal (THE CATECHISM CATALYSM); Canada’s
king of lo-fi, Steven Kostanski (MANBORG); Cuba’s Alejandro Brugués (JUAN OF
THE DEAD); acclaimed UK commercial director Jim Hosking; Japanese monster-maker
Hajime Ohata (HENGE); and Canadian short film wizard Chris Nash (SKINFECTIONS).
Previously
confirmed filmmakers include Goya Award winner Álex de la Iglesia (THE LAST
CIRCUS, DAY OF THE BEAST), ROOM 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher, Academy
Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Filipino icon – and Director’s
Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (ON THE JOB, MAGIC TEMPLE), Lithuania’s
Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (VANISHING WAVES), Japan’s arthouse
provocateur Sion Sono (COLD FISH, SUICIDE CLUB), SPLICE and CUBE’s Vincenzo
Natali, indie horror icon Larry Fessenden (THE LAST WINTER, HABIT), THE
COLLECTION’s Marcus Dunstan, France’s Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
(INSIDE, LIVID), E.L. Katz (director of the SXSW breakout hit CHEAP THRILLS),
twin auteurs Jen and Sylvia Soska (AMERICAN MARY, DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK),
Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (RABIES, BIG BAD WOLVES), A LONELY
PLACE TO DIE’s Julian Gilbey, Brazil’s most controversial filmmaker Dennison
Ramalho (NINJAS and LOVE FOR MOTHER ONLY), the founder of Nigerian “Nollywood”
cinema Lancelot Imasuen, THE LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM and the upcoming
STAGEFRIGHT’s Jerome Sable, and animator Robert Morgan – creator of the BAFTA
Award nominated short BOBBY YEAH.
The
series’ popular “26th Director Competition” also returns,
encouraging filmmakers from all over the world to create their own one-to-three
minute segment, with the best being placed in the finished film itself.
Where the original film asked fans to create short “T is for…” films (with the
winning segment going to Lee Hardcastle’s “T is for Toilet”), the sequel now
switches its competition letter to “M”.
Votes
for the competition will be tabulated via social media, as well as a jury,
which, along with ABCs OF DEATH 2’s numerous other directors, includes
producers Tim League and Ant Timpson, Associate Producer Ted Geoghegan,
Magnolia Pictures president Eamonn Bowles, Entertainment Weekly Senior Editor Clark
Collis, Horror-Movie-A-Day founder and Badass Digest contributor Brian
Collins, author Grady Hendrix, and Fangoria Managing Editor Michael
Gingold.
Contestants
can visit http://26th.abcsofdeathpart2.com
for additional details and to enter their films. Entries must be submitted by
midnight on October 31, with the winner announced on December 15, 2013.
Magnet
is planning a 2014 release of the film. ABCs OF DEATH 2 is produced by Ant
Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown,
Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
For
more information, visit:
#ABCSOFDEATH
About
Magnet Releasing
Magnet
is the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, specializing in films from the vanguard
of horror, action, comedy and Asian cinema, and the home of genre classics like
Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In, Takeshi Miike’s 13 Assassins, Christopher Smith’s Black
Death,
Ti West’s The House of the Devil, Andre Ovredal’s Trollhunter, Gareth Edward’s Monsters, Neil Marshall’s sword
and sandals bloodbath Centurion, and Tony Jaa’s Ong Bak trilogy to name a few.
Recent releases include horror anthologies The ABCs of Death, V/H/S and V/H/S/2, Xan Cassavettes’ Kiss
of the Damned, and
the sci-fi thriller Europa Report. Upcoming releases include the Fantastic Fest
multi-award winning Here Comes the Devil, Fantasia award winning Israeli black
comedy Big Bad Wolves, twisted horror-comedy Bad Milo!, sci-fi thriller Last
Days on Mars, Norwegian
adventure film Ragnarok, and many more.
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